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--- Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/07, Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Example name for the task we've talked about
> before
> > but have not written for inclusion, the
> > counter-argument being that the correct thing to
> do
> > here would be write a custom task. But there are
> Java
> > programs (which shall remain nameless) that are
> > ridiculously complicated to call API-style due to
> the
> > fact that they are meant to be invoked by means of
> a
> > main() method, period. I can't say that I see a
> > reason we can't include such a task in the near
> > future... anyone offering a different opinion had
> best
> > speak up sooner than that. ;)
>
> How does that relate to <java> or <script>? --DD
>
Obviously <script> or <for> could be used, but you
know how it is... some orgs can't or won't accept
dependencies in their buildfiles. Once we get
somewhere with the auto-install stuff we've talked
about with Ant + Ivy, that might be easier to handle
as the user is no longer responsible for setting
everything up. A build could simply retrieve
ant-contrib on the fly.
As for how the proposed <applyjava> relates to <java>,
I imagine it would extend <java> in almost or exactly
the same way that <apply> extends <exec>.
-Matt
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